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Romania - Bulgaria - A DXFC trip to YO and LZ - Nov 2010
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| Arriving at OTP : Bucharest's international airport. The airport is near the town of Otopeni, hence the OTP abbreviation. |
Grim building with cellular and other antennas on top. There is no shortage of grim looking buildings in and around Bucharest. |
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| A CFR (Romanian Railways) train shuttles back and forth between Bucharest airport (OTP) and Bucharest's Gara de Nord station. |
The somewhat sparse (single-track) "airport railway station" is itself already a ten minute bus ride away from the main airport terminal. |
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| The 2.8km long Friendship Bridge (Дунав мост) spans the Danube at the Romania-Bulgaria border (this photo is not mine - the bridge was crossed at around midnight while on the sleeper train!). |
Romanian Railways are somewhat shambolic for the passing tourist. It proved impossible to make any rail bookings outside the country, even through the usually reliable Deutsche Bahn website. |
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| Keeping the door locked on the Bucharest-to-Sofia overnight sleeper train! The Bucharest-to-Sofia train had three sleeper carriages, one from Moscow, one from Kiev and one starting in Bucharest. |
Sofia's impressive new airport was largely funded by the European Union. |
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| Sofia to London BA891 flight cancelled. The incoming BA flight was diverted to Bucharest because of high winds in Sofia. |
After the BA flight had failed to turn up, I was then rerouted back to London on Austrian Airlines via Vienna. Two new DXFC points done! |
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